Sunday, July 21, 2013

Earth's Gold May Come From Collisions of Dead Stars


Some emerging information on where all the gold came from from Harvard University, story at space.com.
All of the gold on Earth might have come from cosmic crashes between superdense dead stars, new research suggests. The origin of the universe's gold is mysterious... (Ed: tipoff!!!!!)

...a new study posits that the collision of two neutron stars — the tiny, incredibly dense cores of exploded stars — could catalyze the creation of the valuable metal.
(Ed:   So smart yet so dumb...)
"We estimate that the amount of gold produced and ejected during the merger of the two neutron stars may be as large as 10 moon masses — quite a lot of bling!" lead author Edo Berger, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), said in a statement.
"To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we are all star stuff, and our jewelry is colliding-star stuff."

Colliding stars somewhere far off in the universe some time back ultimately fomenting mass amounts of moron-hood in the lovers of this metal here on earth (many in leadership no less!) over the last couple of thousands of years ... simply amazing allegations.

Animation below on how two stars may have collided/fused to form conditions that perhaps could create gold, round and round we go...




8 comments:

Ryan Harris said...

Stop the stars. They are debasing the value of Gold.

Unknown said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Unknown said...

A problem for the "let's use gold as money" crowd is that if gold is valuable (and it is) then why waste it as mere money tokens?

But if known insurmountable scarcity is gold's attraction as money then I suggest we use my toe nail clippings instead and save the gold for more important uses. Yes, I'll become fabulously rich but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for "sound money", just as many gold owners are. ;)

Matt Franko said...

F.,

Why is it "valuable" to you?

Industrial uses?

rsp,

Unknown said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Unknown said...

Yep. For industrial uses such as gold contacts.

Matt Franko said...

F.,

10-4... rsp,

The Rombach Report said...

Colliding neutron stars may be where gold came from, but the shiny metal appears to be getting sucked into a black hole.......

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/07/feds-seize-gold-coins-worth-80-million.html